jmstar.bsky.social
Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Desperation.
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Bless you Jeeyon, may the Sudiczka pass you by when the aurora flickers overhead; may the bears stay in the wood
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If it's not for you consider a signal boost! We'd appreciate any help.
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It'd work as a solo of duet game in the same way Desperation does, but it isn't really designed with that in mind so it'd end up with a real writer's room feel, I suspect.
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More detail, Sarah: Each tale is built around four characters, which is the perfect number of players. With less one character becomes an NPC and with more additional participants share a character or provide additional support and play minor roles, etc. But really, if you can get 4 that's best.
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You mean like Willow Palecek's great game Conclave? www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...
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There are plenty of insufferable larpers who privilege character "immersion" over everything else. They are not fun to play with.
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I love Bloc By Bloc!
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I'll be happy to share it with you soon! Almost done. Unlike WINTERHORN it isn't just destructive; you are trying to build up a front group to support government interests. You still try to ruin the opposition, but must also nurture your little authoritarian babies.
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The programs in WINTERHORN: ORCHESTRA are Surveillance, Public Pressure, Security, Disruption, Retention, Provocation and (for two different districts each) Messaging, Recruiting, and Action. Like WINTERHORN it has a twist but it is a different twist.
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Thanks for sharing! This led me to DSKY lettering I'd been looking for for a long time!
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Ah it is Corvus Corax en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_...
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Anticlimactically, most of these are ambient audio I must have played behind TTRPG sessions. I don't remember doing that but it is pretty obvious that I did.
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CAT MUSIC is exactly what you think, soundscapes with birds
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CRAZY GERMAN STUFF is some field band that plays aggressive, historic Teutonic reed instruments at larps and sounds like a battle you are about to lose. It's really fun and I wish I could recall the name of the band.
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It's contemporary music! I think it is Steve's because I don't recognize it and neither does the Internet.
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Something called JATON 3DFORCE AGP
CD labeled CRAZY GERMAN STUFF (!)
CD labeled CAT MUSIC (!)
CD labeled NOTHING BUT COMPUTERS BLEEP BLOOP
CD labeled SEWER
CD labeled PENDRAGON CHURCH
CD with a mix of ragtime and late Tsarist hymns
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A rip of a Mano Negra album
Pirated Illustrator 8.0 with CD key
3.5" floppy with GHOST BOOT 2002 on it
Unlabeled green CD
Quicken Deluxe 98
CONET Project numbers station recordings
WIndows 95 CD with license
Rip of Morricone's "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"
Sound Blaster PCI 16 setup disc
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Oh wow it really would!
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One fun thing - we have to time the actual break-in precisely because we all need to use our maximum werewolf powers but before we wolf out!
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We're two sessions into an Archipelago III game about werewolves doing a heist of werewolf antidote from a secret government lab. I'm playing the cracksman, a redneck werewolf named Cooney Shores.
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It is also really fun to assemble zines. Looking forward to playing this!
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That looks right!
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My sapient spaceships name themselves [terrestrial animal] + [action verb] so CRICKET PINE, SEAL WEAVE, VOLE KEEP, TIGER LAY, etc. Easy to remember but also inexplicable in the best way.
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Came here to say this
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Excited to see your vision for these miserable characters! They are so funny and sad.
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As always, my money is on Dieter Skank
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I will not speak its name aloud
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I don't know but I hope so! Maybe some dark academia larps incorporate microfiche, right? *RIGHT?*
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Sounds great, the world needs more microfiche larps!
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Thanks Ara! You will recognize The Snake King in, well, The Snake King. He's a pretty reasonable gentleman but you can only push a nice guy so far.
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"We call that 'Jocuri sportive de teren de țeapă'" LOSE CHARACTER IMMEDIATELY